# Watch a web page or a question

Canonical: https://godspeedmissioncontrol.com/guide/watches

A **research watch** keeps one question open and tells you only what is new. A **page watch** keeps an eye on one page or subject, such as a price list, and notes when something that matters changed. Both read public pages, and never pay, subscribe or sign in anywhere without your yes.

## Set up a research watch

Name the question, the sources you trust, and how often to check:

```text
Keep researching this: which libraries in my town lend out e-readers? Use the library websites. Check it every Sunday.
```

With no rhythm named, it asks you for one. The first time, it also makes a routine called **research watches**, at the time you named or at 06:30. That one routine checks every research watch you add later.

The first check saves what each source said. Later checks report only what changed, or a source they could not read. The report reaches you like other routine results: in Telegram on a server installed with the one-line command, otherwise in the notebook's **From your routines** folder. Your [morning brief](/guide/morning-brief) names up to two new findings too. To hear everything so far, ask "what did my research watch find?".

## Set up a page watch

1. Ask in the chat to watch a page or a subject.
2. Answer its questions. It asks at most four, once:
   - What would count as better here?
   - Whose word counts as authoritative?
   - How often should the system look?
   - What change warrants interrupting you?

Or use **Settings**: open **Sources to watch**, fill in **Topic**, **Source address**, **What change would matter?** and **Minutes between checks**, then click **Watch this source**.

Each page is checked as often as you set. A change that matters becomes a finding that quotes the page as it now reads. The newest finding is in your next [morning brief](/guide/morning-brief), if you have one switched on; otherwise findings wait until you ask "what did my page watches find?". A finding expires after seven days.

If a page cannot be read three checks in a row, a notice appears under the bell in the notebook's top bar.

## Pause a watch

- **One question or page:** ask in the chat to pause that watch. A page watch also has **Pause** under **Sources to watch** in **Settings**.
- **All research watches:** pause the **research watches** routine ([Pause, move or run a routine](/guide/routines)).